Professional Humans

We had a conversation about where power comes from with one of our favorite professional humans, Mahtab Rezai. The lessons in here aren't going to hit you over the head with obviousness - but there are some concepts in here for you to start to explore about yourself, like the Where You Were Forged idea, that will help you understand how you present yourself in the workplace, and what kind of work community draws out the best in your abilities.

Related Links:

http://cruxcollaborative.com/consultants/mahtab-rezai/ - Crux Collaborative

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahtabrezai - Mahtab on LinkedIn

https://twitter.com/ms_rezai - Mahtab on Twitter

We have been working on a new format for the podcast, and did an impromptu episode with superfan and PH alumnus (http://prohumans.com/episode-13-managing-humans-not-projects/)Mike Mason to get his reactions to it. We are pretty excited about it, and look forward to hearing from you all about it as we go down this path.

Related Links:

https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/episodes/season/season-1/ - Startup, Season 1

https://gimletmedia.com/show/mystery-show/ - The Mystery Show

http://thrillingadventurehour.com/ - The Thrilling Adventure Hour

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

As part of our ongoing sub-series about Minimalism and our journey to reduce and simplify our lives, we invited Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch to come in and chat with us about his own journey and explorations into minimalism and, specifically, breaking the buying habits that are at the root of having too much stuff.

Related Links:

http://www.breakthetwitch.com/ - Break the Twitch

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/ - Becoming Minimalist

http://www.theminimalists.com/minsgame/ - Mins Game

http://simplerev.com/ - Simple Rev

https://www.niceridemn.org/ - Nice Ride MN

http://hopeeffect.com/ - The Hope Effect (Josh Becker)

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

We wanted to get a more global perspective on the job hunting process, so we Skyped with a friend on the other side of the pond, Andrew Abboud, about what it's like to look for a job in Europe. It isn't that different! But, we had a good chat with him - enjoy!

Related Links: 

https://twitter.com/aabboud - Andrew on Twitter

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrewabboud - Andrew on LinkedIn

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

In Part 2 of Culture of Feedback, we continue our journey to being great at giving and receiving feedback in a conversation with Chris Pegg, an admired feedback-giver and esteemed colleague.

Related Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poohsticks - Pooh Sticks

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-pegg-41435b26 - Chris on Linked-In

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

When you hear the phrase “manage up” or “lead up,” it’s easy to assume that means that your boss isn’t doing their job and you have to teach them how to do it. But it’s not that simple. When you consider that 82% of leaders were promoted into their role because they were great at doing the job of the people reporting to them, not because they were identified as a great leader, it’s clear you’ll have a decent chance of getting in with a boss who has some opportunity areas.

But even those who are good or even great bosses need to both lead and be led. We wanted to get into how to make that a normal, healthy part of your partnership with your boss, so we talked with guest alumni Dena Alspach (http://prohumans.com/episode-11-the-amazing-job-you-dont-know-youre-good-at-yet/) and Brad Walter (http://prohumans.com/episode-26-self-organizing-teams-brad-walter/) about approaches they’ve taken in their careers, and what learnings they can share to help other Professional Humans be better at work.

This was a live episode recorded on June 28, 2016 at Republic Seven Corners - http://republicmn.com/

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

We talked with our friends Nate & Tom from Studio E, an entrepreneurial studio designed to help leaders navigate the unknown in a time of increasing uncertainty. By helping you shift your mindset, the Studio E curriculum can help you guide yourself - and your team - through the unknown and get to success.

Related Links:

http://yourstudioe.com/ - Studio E Website

https://twitter.com/YourStudioE - Studio E on Twitter

https://www.ted.com/speakers/benjamin_zander - Benjamin Zander / Ted Talk

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

We talked with Andy Krueger of the Twin Cities craft show, Craftstravaganza, about how to know when your passion project is becoming your real job, things to watch out for as you get serious about your passion project, and just how important it is to have one of those projects in the first place.

Related Links:

http://www.craftstravaganza.com/ -Craftstravaganza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnMtvc8EBQY&index=11&list=PLshjD3mEDALu6rxZaP9jMiKCtUPi1BUSP - Andy's Ignite talk (apologies for long link)

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

We talked with Kelly Groehler of Sprosty Network about her progression from Director of External Relations at Best Buy to her present job working in a retail startup accelerator here in the Twin Cities. Kelly tells us about how she spent time deciding what she _didn't_ want to do, which ended up being important as she made her way to the role she's in now.

After reflecting on the conversation, we found a pattern emerging in several of the conversations we've had where people we admire are doing jobs they love and finding that formal training or credentials are less important than they used to be. Kelly talks about it in this episode in regard to marketing communications, but you will also hear this in our episode about running a restaurant with Matty O'Reilly, in our episodes about getting your dream job with Tamara Dennison, about strategy with Justin Royer, about self-organizing teams with Brad Walter, faking it until you make it with Jeff Kamin, and about the amazing job you don't know you're good at yet with Dena Alspach.

Related Links:

http://www.sprosty.net/ - Sprosty Network

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellygroehler - Kelly on LinkedIn

https://twitter.com/kellygroehler - Kelly on Twitter

Related Professional Humans episodes:

http://prohumans.com/episode-23-negotiation-small-business-challenges/

http://prohumans.com/episode-28-getting-dream-job-part-1-w-tamara-dennison/

http://prohumans.com/episode-32-wtf-strategy/

http://prohumans.com/episode-26-self-organizing-teams-brad-walter/

http://prohumans.com/episode-16-fake-it-til-you-make-it/

http://prohumans.com/episode-11-the-amazing-job-you-dont-know-youre-good-at-yet/

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

We had a talk with our friend Justin Royer about what a "Strategist" really does - and also try to find a new paradigm of venn diagramming.

Related Links:

http://growwithgo.com/ - Justin's day job when not envisioning squenn diagrams

Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian